Earle Brown
Country of origin:
United States of America
Birthday:
December 26, 1926
Date of death:
July 2, 2002
About Earle Brown
A leading composer of the American avant-garde since the 1950s, Earle Brown (1926–2002) was a major force in contemporary music. He was associated with the composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff, who, with Brown, came to be known as the New York School. In Europe, Brown’s music became known through performances and lectures at major festivals such as Darmstadt and Donaueschingen as early as the mid to late 1950s. Brown’s interest in a broad range of aesthetic expression, ranging from the writings of James Joyce and the poetry of Gertrude Stein, Kenneth Patchen, and others, to the work of the Abstract Expressionist painters – and particularly Jackson Pollock and Alexander Calder – informed his own work. His conducting techniques and experiments with “time notation,” improvisation and open-form compositional structure have become part of contemporary compositional usage. His early influential orchestral scores include Available Forms 1 and Available Forms 2, while his Folio and Four Systems and its December 1952 continues today as a classic landmark of graphic notation. His musical friendships were noteworthy – from Bruno Maderna, who conducted first performances of many of Brown’s works, to jazz musicians such as Zoot Sims, Gerry Mulligan and Bob Brookmeyer, to Edgard Varese (with whom he had a standing weekly New York lunch date) and Virgil Thomson.
Earle Brown was also an accomplished record producer. His studies in music, mathematics and engineering, and his involvement in the 1952–54 “Project for Music for Magnetic Tape” with John Cage, David Tudor and Louis and Bebe Barron, provided him with the skills and experience to support himself as a recording engineer for many years. His most influential and widely acclaimed creation as a record producer was the 18-record Contemporary Sound Series. Brown made all artistic decisions, supervised all of the recordings of the music, took photographs for the covers and wrote the liner notes. Introducing works by composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Mauricio Kagel, John Cage, Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis and many others, the series became an important conduit for the presentation of contemporary avant-garde music. Working with some of the best musicians of his time, among them Cathy Berberian, Bernd and Aloys Kontarsky, David Tudor and Bruno Maderna, Brown captured the avant-garde in what would much later become a widely accepted repertoire of twentieth-century music. The series stands as a testament to Brown’s life-long generosity to his fellow composers and musicians, as well as to his ability to recognize and acclaim compositional excellence, no matter how far removed in style from his own work.
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Products
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Composer: Earle BrownSeries: Edition Schott
Brand: Schott Music
Instrumentation: pianoProduct number: ED 10702Product TypeAs low as £6.99 -
Composer: Earle BrownInterpreter: Sabine LiebnerMedia Type: CDBrand: Wergo
Product number: WER 67452£14.99Not in stock, but can be ordered - usually despatched (or ready for collection) within 7 days -
(1973)Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: violin and ensembleProduct number: EP11128£35.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: Score and partsSeries: Litolff
Brand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: 2 or 3 pianosProduct number: EP11129£34.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
for OrchestraComposer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: orchestraProduct number: EP11130£26.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
Earle Brown Contemporary Sound SeriesComposer: AMM | John Cage | Henry Cowell | Lou Harrison | Mauricio Kagel | MEV - Musica Elettronica Viva | Amadeo Roldán | William Russell | Karlheinz StockhausenEditor: Earle BrownInterpreter: Alan Bryant | John Cage | Cornelius Cardew | Christoph Caskel | Alvin Curran | Lou Gare | Christopher Hobbs | Aloys Kontarsky | Bernhard Kontarsky | Eddie Prévost | Keith Rowe | Frederic Rzewski | Richard Teitelbaum | David Tudor | Ivan VandorConductor: John Cage | Paul PriceMedia Type: 3 CDsEdition: 3 CDs in slipcaseBrand: Wergo
Product number: WER 69282£28.99Not in stock, but can be ordered - usually despatched (or ready for collection) within 7 days -
Earle Brown Contemporary Sound SeriesComposer: David Bedford | Luciano Berio | Sir Harrison Birtwistle | Earle Brown | Morton Feldman | Bruno Maderna | Sir Peter Maxwell Davies | Luigi Nono | Richard OrtonEditor: Earle BrownInterpreter: Seymour Barab | Don Butterfield | Jacques Castagner | Alan Ray Hacker | Don Hammond | Philip Kraus | Walter Lewis | Jane Manning | Richard Orton | Francis Pierre | Matthew Raimondi | David Soyer | Mary Thomas | John Tilbury | Walter Trampler | David Tudor | Moray WelshConductor: Luciano Berio | Bruno Maderna | Sir Peter Maxwell DaviesOrchestra/ensemble: The English Chamber Orchestra | The Pierrot PlayersMedia Type: 3 CDsEdition: 3 CDs in slipcaseBrand: Wergo
Product number: WER 69312£28.99Not in stock, but can be ordered - usually despatched (or ready for collection) within 7 days -
Earle Brown Contemporary Sound SeriesComposer: Luciano Berio | Earle Brown | Sylvano Bussotti | John Cage | Toshiro Mayuzumi | Roger Reynolds | Yuji Takahashi | Iannis XenakisEditor: Earle BrownInterpreter: Cathy Berberian | Luciano Berio | Jean Pierre Drouet | Francis Pierre | Yuji Takahashi | Boris de VinogradovOrchestra/ensemble: NHK Symphony OrchestraChoir: Nippon University Chorus | Tokyo ChoraliersConductor: Wilhelm SchuechterMedia Type: 3 CDsEdition: 3 CDs in slipcaseBrand: Wergo
Product number: WER 69342£28.99Not in stock, but can be ordered - usually despatched (or ready for collection) within 7 days -
Earle Brown Contemporary Sound SeriesComposer: Pierre Boulez | Earle Brown | Niccolò Castiglioni | Aldo Clementi | Vittorio Fellegara | Milko Kelemen | Włodzimierz Kotoński | Bo Nilsson | Giacinto Scelsi | Arnold Schoenberg | Yuji Takahashi | Iannis Xenakis | Isang YunEditor: Earle BrownInterpreter: Guy Deplus | Lothar Faber | Severino Gazzelloni | Paul ZukofskyOrchestra/ensemble: Hamann Quartett | Hamburger Kammersolisten | Internationales Kranichsteiner Kammerensemble | New York String Quartet | Quartetto di Nuova Musica | Quatuor ParreninConductor: Bruno Maderna | Francis TravisMedia Type: 3 CDsEdition: 3 CDs in slipcaseBrand: Wergo
Product number: WER 69372£28.99Not in stock, but can be ordered - usually despatched (or ready for collection) within 7 days -
Earle Brown Contemporary Sound SeriesComposer: Robert Ashley | David Behrman | Luciano Berio | Niccolò Castiglioni | Franoc Evangelisti | Charles E. Ives | Alvin Lucier | Bruno Maderna | Yoritsune Matsudaira | Olivier Messiaen | Gordon MummaEditor: Earle BrownInterpreter: Robert Ashley | David Behrman | Severino Gazzelloni | Aloys Kontarsky | Alvin Lucier | Gordon Mumma | Theo Pluemacher | Willy SchweglerMedia Type: 3 CDsEdition: 3 CDs in slipcaseBrand: Wergo
Product number: WER 69402£28.99Not in stock, but can be ordered - usually despatched (or ready for collection) within 7 days -
Earle Brown Contemporary Sound SeriesComposer: Oscar Bazán | César Bolanos | John Cage | George Crumb | Manuel Enríquez | Gerardo Gandini | Alcides Lanza | Marlos Nobre | Christian Wolff | Charles Wuorinen | Isang YunEditor: Earle BrownInterpreter: John Cage | Howard Hillyer | Gilbert Kalish | Kenji Kobayashi | Matthew Raimondi | David Soyer | Walter Trampler | David Tudor | Paul ZukofskyConductor: Alcides LanzaOrchestra/ensemble: The New Sound Composers-Performers GroupMedia Type: 3 CDsEdition: 3 CDs in slipcaseBrand: Wergo
Product number: WER 69432£28.99Not in stock, but can be ordered - usually despatched (or ready for collection) within 7 days -
(1967/68)Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: chamber ensembleProduct number: EP11131£17.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
for piano solosComposer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: piano soloLanguage: EnglishProduct number: EP11112£26.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
for orchestra and chorusComposer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: choir and orchestraProduct number: EP11132£17.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
for piano soloComposer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: piano soloLanguage: EnglishProduct number: EP11148£8.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
for Merce Cunningham. Ballet Version.Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: piano soloProduct number: EP11115£78.00Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: Performing scoreSeries: Litolff
Brand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: violin, cello and pianoProduct number: EP11135£11.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: Performing score, Spielpartitur als farbige Broschüre für alle MusikerBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: large orchestraProduct number: EP11118£25.50Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicSeries: Litolff
Brand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: 1 or 2 harpsichordsProduct number: EP11138£7.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
(1962)Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: chamber ensembleProduct number: EP11139£35.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
(1992)Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: 9 instrumentsProduct number: EP11124£8.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
Composer: Earle BrownSeries: Edition Schott
Brand: Ars Viva Verlag
Instrumentation: pianoProduct number: AVV 4Product TypeAs low as £8.50 -
1969Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: mixed choirLanguage: EnglishProduct number: EP11142£3.00Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: Performing scoreSeries: Litolff
Brand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: cello and pianoProduct number: EP11127£23.00Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: Performing scoreSeries: Litolff
Brand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: string quartetProduct number: EP11143£32.00Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
for pianoComposer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: piano soloLanguage: EnglishProduct number: EP11126£34.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
(1963)Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: Flute, Trombone, Harp, Violin, Cello and TapeProduct number: EP11146£26.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
für 6 Spieler und 4-Kanal-BandComposer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturSeries: Litolff
Brand: Edition Peters
Product number: EP11123£55.00Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
Composer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicSeries: Litolff
Brand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: 1-25 pianosProduct number: EP11147£34.95Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown -
for 1 to 25 pianos (1953)Composer: Earle BrownInterpreter: Steffen SchleiermacherMedia Type: CDBrand: Wergo
Product number: WER 66122£14.99Not in stock, but can be ordered - usually despatched (or ready for collection) within 7 days -
für Mezzosopran und 7 InstrumenteComposer: Earle BrownMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: PartiturBrand: Edition Peters
Instrumentation: voice (medium) and 7 instrumentsProduct number: EP11120£44.50Supplier out of stock, delivery time unknown